i have similar problem with ubuntu 8.10
$ LANG=C sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x11de11dd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id
Device almost certainly contains both metadata, no way to resolve this.
** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Won't Fix
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NTFS partition tried to mount as reiserfs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181305
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The drive has never been formatted with reiserfs, so I doubt that both
types of metadata are present.
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NTFS partition tried to mount as reiserfs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181305
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